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About Partners In Health (PIH) Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has long struggled with some of the world’s worst health outcomes—including a maternal mortality epidemic in which a woman’s lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth is 1 in 20. Extreme poverty prevents most families from accessing health care. And often the care they need isn’t available, given the country’s severe shortage of trained clinicians, health infrastructure, and medical supplies.
West Africa’s historic Ebola outbreak intensified all of these problems, and further eroded Sierra Leone’s already weak health system. So when the government requested PIH’s help to end the outbreak, we agreed—and committed to staying long past Ebola, to build and strengthen a health system founded on every Sierra Leonean’s right to health.
Today, in partnership with the government, PIH supports six health facilities across three districts in an effort to build a health system that protects every Sierra Leonean’s right to health, especially those most vulnerable to sickness and injustice.
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PIH staff drive to Kombayendeh Community Health Centre, a primary health unit in Kono District that PIH is supporting with ...
Today, Jon speaks with Ahmidu Barrie, PIH-SL's Director of Operations for an update on Covid-19 in Kono District. Ahmidu is ...
The President of Sierra Leone and the Minister of Health and Sanitation visited the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital on ...
Dr. Marta Patiño, PIH-Sierra Leone's internal medicine physician, has been working at Koidu Government Hospital for two years ...
Today, Jon travels just outside Freetown to attend the opening ceremony for the 120 bed community care center that PIH's ...
Today, Jon Lascher speaks with Vicky Reed, Director of Nursing, and Isata Dumbuya, Maternal and Child Health lead. Both Vicky ...
Today, Jon Lascher travels to the main Covid-19 hospital in Sierra Leone: the 34 Military Hospital, and checks in with Dr. Marta ...
Today, Jon Lascher speaks with Vamba Lolleh, the Electronic Health Officer for PIH Sierra Leone. He talks about deploying ...
Today, Jon Lascher speaks with head of laboratory services for PIH Sierra Leone, Musa Bangura. Musa shares some insights into ...
Today, Jon Lascher speaks with Infrastructure Manager, and roommate, Douglas Miller to learn more about a new Covid-19 ward ...